Touch of Riches Chapter 47

In the neighborhood where Meilan lived, few children could go to school. The children she had seen who could go to school were all from slightly wealthy families, such as the sons of her landlords.

The schools these children go to are just private schools in slightly better places in the slums. The real elite schools are located in the rich areas. Perhaps to reflect the so-called "fairness and justice", every year they will select a few students with outstanding academic performance from private elementary schools or private schools in other neighborhoods to enter the middle schools in the rich areas. If they can study well in middle schools, they can even be recommended to go to college or even study abroad in the future.

In this era, studying hard is still a slim but glimmering hope to escape from the existing class.

In the slums, children who can afford to go to school are superior to others. Watching them carrying their schoolbags to school, Meilan once secretly used branches and paper folded into boxes to pretend that she was her pencil case, used the account book used for accounting at home as her book, and played the "school" scene with other little girls when playing house.

However, she had never imagined what it would be like after entering school. She only knew from the boys' bragging that school was a place with many children, teachers, and many fun and interesting things.